Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the South East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 143 169
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 45 26 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.03% 0.69% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.75% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 22
10th Percentile £590 £527 £557
25th Percentile £603 £573 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.90%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £698
90th Percentile - £725 £711
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,927 3,482 4,724
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 92.78% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,177 3,081
10th Percentile £220 £235 £206
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 132 236
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.52 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £24.84
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -19.45% +50.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £66.06
90th Percentile £81.40 £73.56 £76.53
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +2 36 £625 - 10
Thames Valley -11 6 £625 +8.23% 1
Berkshire -10 5 £625 -5.66%
West Sussex -7 2 £663 +10.42%
Surrey +4 1 £400 -27.27% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Infrastructure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 37 (82.22%) Security Cleared
2 31 (68.89%) DV Cleared
3 25 (55.56%) VMware
4 23 (51.11%) Windows
5 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
6 18 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (31.11%) NetApp
8 13 (28.89%) Agile
9 12 (26.67%) Windows Server
9 12 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (24.44%) Linux
10 11 (24.44%) vSphere
11 10 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
11 10 (22.22%) iSCSI
11 10 (22.22%) MCSE
11 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (22.22%) NFS
11 10 (22.22%) Splunk
11 10 (22.22%) SQL
11 10 (22.22%) Veeam
11 10 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
13 7 (15.56%) Firewall
14 6 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
14 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
15 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
15 5 (11.11%) Operational Stability
15 5 (11.11%) SAN
15 5 (11.11%) VCP5
15 5 (11.11%) VCP6

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.44%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.22%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
1 10 (22.22%) iSCSI
2 7 (15.56%) Firewall
3 5 (11.11%) SAN
4 4 (8.89%) NAS
5 3 (6.67%) DNS
6 2 (4.44%) DHCP
6 2 (4.44%) VPN
6 2 (4.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MSI
General
1 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Back Office
3 2 (4.44%) Front Office
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Replication
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Windows
2 12 (26.67%) Windows Server
2 12 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 11 (24.44%) Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.22%) CentOS
6 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Agile
2 6 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (11.11%) Operational Stability
4 4 (8.89%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (8.89%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (6.67%) Coaching
5 3 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (6.67%) Prototyping
5 3 (6.67%) Zero Trust
6 2 (4.44%) Architectural Design
6 2 (4.44%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (4.44%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.44%) Containerisation
6 2 (4.44%) Fit Analysis
6 2 (4.44%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (4.44%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (4.44%) Roadmaps
6 2 (4.44%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) SQL
2 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (82.22%) Security Cleared
2 31 (68.89%) DV Cleared
3 10 (22.22%) MCSE
3 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (11.11%) VCP5
4 5 (11.11%) VCP6
4 5 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (24.44%) vSphere
3 10 (22.22%) NFS
3 10 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) WMI
2 2 (4.44%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.22%) Nessus
3 1 (2.22%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) VMware
2 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (31.11%) NetApp
4 10 (22.22%) Splunk
4 10 (22.22%) Veeam
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.44%) Citrix
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
6 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco
7 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.22%) Sophos